A Bethel drug bust has netted seven adults in a raid conducted by the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit and Bethel police. 47 grams of heroin, a half pound of crack cocaine and 64 thousand dollars cash was seized from a private residence in Bethel on Thursday.
According to a dispatch from Alaska State Troopers, charges have been filed against Eric Kinegak, 34, Anthony Washington Sr, 57 and Anthony Washington Jr., 30, and Melissa Beans, 36, all of Bethel. Two California men, Shawayne Jenkins, 34, and Ryan Daniels, 39, were also arrested. . Albert Cleveland, 30, of Quinhagak, was also taken in on parole violation charges.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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